Clean the beans, pick out the small rocks (if any), broken beans, the dark beans, and the dried out rotten beans. Wash the beans with lukewarm water. NEVER put salt until AFTER the beans cook to avoid dark beans.
It's not that I don't know how to cook pinto beans, it's that there are about 3 million different ways to do so on youtube and I am trying to find an "average of the totals" recipe and then work with that.
My basic bitch pot of beans goes like this. Soak beans overnight in water. Dump water next morning, clean beans, cover beans with water and boil. You can add as you please from there for aroma and taste. Onion and crushed whole garlic cloves at a minimum. Fresh bayleaf (3 sprigs) is a nice addition. Very simple and healthy dish.
My mother and my grandmother always said to add the salt an hour after cooking, because if you add it in the beginning, it takes longer for the beans to soften.
I love watching and learning how people cook pintos. It’s the little things that are slightly different. Being from the South, pintos are a big deal! I watched and helped my granny sort the beans. ❤️ We loved having a simple lunch of pintos served with cornbread cooked in the iron skillet ❤️
I like to soak them for a couple hours, changing out the water when it gets dark. This helps to keep them from giving gas. Cook for a few hours adding bacon and a little rotel when they are semi soft. Mush a few beans to make them slightly creamy, add onion, cilantro and some salt and garlic powder. Also, using half chicken broth instead of all water adds flavor.
You forgot to check for pebbles and also add garlic. Also, you should not add any salt until after they are cooked because salt prevents beans from softening, or will take a lot longer to soften.
The BEST & EASIEST beans I’ve had is instant pot, no need to soak- just rinse good- cook for 35 mins and add a few of the pork flavored packets by knorr- I lived in Mexico and the instant pot is always the winner
The best way for me is to yes, wash them first. Then let them sit in water while your water in the pot comes to a boil, then put in the beans. This makes the cooking process a little quicker and helps the beans be cleaner looking. I also boil with garlic clove to release the ‘bean gas’
My grandma taught me you do not out the beans in until the water is boiling. And if you need to add more water, it needs to be hot or the beans get dark in color. (Speaking about Peruvian beans) but everyone has their method. ❤
when we cook it at my house, about halfway through the cooking is when we add salt, onion, and garlic. i dont know how much of a difference it makes when adding these halfway, but hey, its tradition here
Everyone has different ways to cook them I was told you never add salt until they’re almost the reason it’s it will take more time to cook and and won’t be tender the same with meats specially the ones that take more time to cook 😮
Cooking outside allows for you to get less smell. After I make dinner, sometimes I will go out on a walk outside to reset and enjoy it more. Works well.
I get sick on pintos that haven't been soaked 7-8 hours (and not more!) first and then I do cook in the soaking liquid low and slow: never higher than a low simmer. Along with some fresh crushed cumin and salt and garlic, I add one cut up potato. The potato softens the skins and helps keep beans from bursting leave creamy whole beans that crush well, too. It took me a long time to figure it beans. It's like no one on TH-cam knows how to cook beans.
I sort and wash my beans. I don't presoak the beans. I add: 4 chopped fresh garlic 1/4 white onion finely chopped 2 slices thin bacon 4 slices of mild pickled jalapenos ( Mt Olive or Hatch brand) Two tablespoons of the jalapeno pepper juice 1 tablespoon of regular sugar The water level way above the beans Bring to a rapid boil then stir it and put on the airtight lid and turn the heat down to a low simmer then stir a few times. The salt is add after the beans are done cooking and in spare amount. The beans broth will be perfect. If you want to make refried beans, just mash the beans and use the broth to get the perfect consistency. That's my favorite way to cook pinto beans. The best pinto beans are the Casserole Brand.
I would've dropped in some smoked turkey wings, lil bit cajun seasoning, and can't forget garlic and onions. In my house anyway. And made a little pan of cornbread.
When I was a kid my dad use to make use go through each individual bean to make sure there were no rocks or debri in it. Kinda annoying, but I cant remember if we ever found any rocks.
Best way for me is to sort & rinse well & cover with warer & then soak overnight. In the morning, Rinse & cover with water and boil for 5 minutes rinse again and cover with water & boil for 5 more minutes. THEN rinse again & cover with water & bring to boil & finally, reduce heat to simmer for 2 hours. This boiling & rinsing gets rid of the nasty so we are not having the common issues after eating. beans.
I started off takening my pinto beans out the bag they come in and soak them in a pot over night .thenI rinse them good until the water run clear then I take out the bad pinto beans then I put 10 cups of water in my pot to cover my beans then I put my beans in chicken broth 2 cubes i then cut up one big onion, then I get my meat out or I used smoke turkey legs about 5 or I used about 8 fresh or smoke turkey necks or about 5 turkey wings then I either used those type meat in my pinto beans it gives it a great flavor, then I used two bay leaves into beans, then I put one tablespoon of garlic powder in my beans, then one tablespoon of black pepper in my beans , one belll pepper, one tablespoon of of seasonings salt, then once my beans boil 2 tablespoon of vegetable oil and let my pinto beans cook for for hours until tender then on the side I make corn bread, and brown rice on side to go with my beans
Nosotros los limpiamos primero, los enjuagamos,ponemos agua limpia le ponemos una cabeza de ajo grande , una cebolla un chorito de aceite y ya que están sal. 🤷♀️
I’m sooo glad you don’t soak los frijoles either, we just cook them right away too and it completely transforms the beans and the bean broth into the most amazing and delicious beans ever!! No measurements needed, I do how mi Gramita taught me and I’m so blessed to continue preparing her food, so blessed 🥲💯🙏🏽💞
Something i always wondered was, to soak the beans, put the beans to soak in the fridge, if you leave them to soak at room temp,, they smell rotten. Yes you dispose of the water, replace it and boil.
No no no se le pone sal a los frejoles hasta después si lo pones antes demora como tu dices 2 horas , se le pone la sal cuando el frejol por dentro esta un poquito duro ahí es el momento de la sal y solo demora 45 minutos y quizás un poquito menos depende la cantidad a mi 45 minutos.
Great, should have read the comments first. I did sort beforehand but didn’t know about adding salt afterwards. I’m going to blend mine though after they’re cooked and refry them. That’s where I’ll add the onion and garlic.
Thank you Jenny for showing that you DO NOT need to soak the beans ahead of time!! For all those in the comments saying "don't you need to soak the beans?" NO! YOU! DON'T!! "It makes the beans softer." Yeah, so does cooking the for a bit longer. "It makes them prettier." (I swear I read that in the comments.) Are you f*cking kidding me?! IT'S ABOUT HOW THEY TASTE, NOT HOW THEY LOOK!!!! And my UNSOAKED beans look hella nice thank you very much. I'm just really sick of non-Latinos trying to tell us how you're "supposed" to cook beans, especially when some of us (Mexicans, like me) cook beans almost every day. But yeah, you should have picked them for rocks first. 😁
I was taught to clean them by sorting the beans and finding the little stones or rocks out.Then you rinse them.I try not to waste so much water.I dislike biting into a hard little rock.
It's the brother 😂 of Indian Rajma (kidney beans) and we simply soak it overnight. Add spices like bay leaves, star anise and cinnamon sticks and pressure cook in a cooker for 40 to 50 minutes. Keep aside till the pressure goes out from the pressure cooker.
I enjoy some of your recipes, especially when you throw the food at your camera. With all due respect, you will have to start when making beans as my mother showed me to separate the bad or chip beans and the small rocks that come with the bag of beans, yes, depending on were your beans come from you will need to freeze them first because the beans sometimes have a bug 🐛 in side and freezing kills the bugs. Then, use water to rinse more than once. At times, the darker the water tells you how old the beans are. I never wash my beans as my mother used to wash in the tub. Because we have a washer 😅 and last I dump the water after cooking 30 minutes and add new clean filter water along with 1 jalapeno G/R 🌶 and one whole onions 🌰 cut in 4 pieces ( some time) if you let set the beans in water for 30 minutes it will take less time to cook. The only things I cook outside are carne asada, chicken, shrimp, and vegetables for salsa. 🍋🍅🌰🦪🍤 Now y lesto and enjoy senorita. 😎
if you buy them from the mexican market by the pound you need to pick out the rocks in them changed my moms life the day i told her to get the ones from sams club lol
I wash my Beans with a Drop of dishwashing SOAP! Swish, Swish, Rince several times. Cook with baking soda remove the GAS💨 Bring to a boil for 10 minutes. Drain and rinse. Fill cool with water and another teaspoon of Baking Soda, start the cooking proses. Add your onion and herbs of your choice. Buddy Love Momma Lucy 💖
Clean the beans, pick out the small rocks (if any), broken beans, the dark beans, and the dried out rotten beans. Wash the beans with lukewarm water. NEVER put salt until AFTER the beans cook to avoid dark beans.
😊 Thank you so much for letting me know about the salt at the end I get dark beans most times
@@salmagodessa8719 Viola! Now your beans will turn out beautiful!
thank you!!!
@@martinasteelers Of course!
Damn I just added salt before I read this comment 😭
Wonderful! Thank you Jenny!
It's not that I don't know how to cook pinto beans, it's that there are about 3 million different ways to do so on youtube and I am trying to find an "average of the totals" recipe and then work with that.
What recipe did you find? I'm in the same position
Broooo literally meee😂😂😂
My basic bitch pot of beans goes like this. Soak beans overnight in water. Dump water next morning, clean beans, cover beans with water and boil. You can add as you please from there for aroma and taste. Onion and crushed whole garlic cloves at a minimum. Fresh bayleaf (3 sprigs) is a nice addition. Very simple and healthy dish.
@charlessavell3641 mmmm I like the bay leaf addition
My mother and my grandmother always said to add the salt an hour after cooking, because if you add it in the beginning, it takes longer for the beans to soften.
Exactly
Exactly and u can put a little bit of Manteca or oil.
@@madeloliver6416 yess
@@SybilBrand1969 😉☺️
Yes and it's the same with any acids as well. Do not add them until after, or they will never get soft.
You forgot the most important thing ?? MY GRANDMA ALWAYS SAYS U NEED TO SORT BEFORE you wash and cook it gets the bad ones out smh
Correct, sometimes there's little rocks in there as well and if you bite one ouch!
Yup that is my way my Mexican American grandma, Colombian grandma and mom have all taught me is to wash & sort which I always do...
How the hell you know she didn't do it before the damn video ? If your not the one eating it don't worry about it
@@bogeyman-bv4wg Well if she's teaching us how to make them she better show every step tf
@@BlessingAw well maybe this is a lesson on learning the hard way
I love watching and learning how people cook pintos. It’s the little things that are slightly different. Being from the South, pintos are a big deal! I watched and helped my granny sort the beans. ❤️ We loved having a simple lunch of pintos served with cornbread cooked in the iron skillet ❤️
So true everything taste better when cooked outside.
I like to soak them for a couple hours, changing out the water when it gets dark. This helps to keep them from giving gas. Cook for a few hours adding bacon and a little rotel when they are semi soft. Mush a few beans to make them slightly creamy, add onion, cilantro and some salt and garlic powder. Also, using half chicken broth instead of all water adds flavor.
I put Bacon , Garlic, Onion and Cilantro in my Beracho Beans
You forgot to check for pebbles and also add garlic.
Also, you should not add any salt until after they are cooked because salt prevents beans from softening, or will take a lot longer to soften.
Just learned something new😊
It cuts your time down if you put them in warm water over night, then give them one final rinse and cook👌🏽😉
@@NoSeasBurro
Not if you add salt before they are cooked.
That's an interesting way to cook them. We soak them overnight and boil the smoked meat then add the beans
I learned the overnight soak method from my Salvadoran grandma. I guess it’s different around the globe?
Me too
Me too
Yes , soaking beans 🫘 will then cook faster 👍🏽
Yea soak them for more flavor and softer bean
You can add garlic and epazote too. Salud y saludos.
We're always learning a better way of cooking thanks enjoy watching your videos looking for your cookbook God bless everybody
The BEST & EASIEST beans I’ve had is instant pot, no need to soak- just rinse good- cook for 35 mins and add a few of the pork flavored packets by knorr- I lived in Mexico and the instant pot is always the winner
The best way for me is to yes, wash them first. Then let them sit in water while your water in the pot comes to a boil, then put in the beans. This makes the cooking process a little quicker and helps the beans be cleaner looking. I also boil with garlic clove to release the ‘bean gas’
If that’s a concern for you add some Epasote while cooking your brans
My grandma taught me you do not out the beans in until the water is boiling. And if you need to add more water, it needs to be hot or the beans get dark in color. (Speaking about Peruvian beans) but everyone has their method. ❤
You forgot the spices and some kind of pork fat like bacon, ham or ham hocks.
That's what I'm talking about...👍
I was told to add the salt after the beans are soft so that's what I do. But I will try this method for sure
Same. Because then it takes longer to cook. Which in my experience, is true
Same here about waiting to salt because they stay hard🤷
Keep adding the salt after they boil NEVER before boiling 👍🏻
Yes we do this at wrk at season last
Yes, and Never add cold water to your beans while cooking
3 hrs 😮😮, 45 minutes in my pressure cooker 🎉🎉🎉❤❤
Low pressure? For how long?
If you want exact measurements buy my book....in other words 😂😂 ....just find another video where they explain for free
when we cook it at my house, about halfway through the cooking is when we add salt, onion, and garlic. i dont know how much of a difference it makes when adding these halfway, but hey, its tradition here
Everybody is an expert AND a critic.
Yes add salt after.
Also adding salt in the beginning can pit your pot at the bottom of tge pot.
Easy measurement 2 cups of beans 8 cups of water!
Más cebolla y ajo por favorrrs
Thank you for the lesson on cooking beans. You are right, many of us are just learning to cook.
Y el garlic 🧄? 🤷🏽♀️
Si los vas a refreir se puede sumar despues el ajo. Aunque a mi si me falta unas hojitas de epasote
Everyone has different ways to cook them I was told you never add salt until they’re almost the reason it’s it will take more time to cook and and won’t be tender the same with meats specially the ones that take more time to cook 😮
You need to pick through them! Get the rocks out. I have found rocks in packaged beans from the grocery store. Your going to break someones teeth.
Yup! Also sort to get the broken beans out, dark ones and the rocks!!
I've only had the problem with rocks and sand with dried beans in Mexico. I've never had that experience here in the US.
Please pick any stones out, most beans have pebbles that if not taken out will crack a tooth
I pre ordered ur cookbook back when it was first available, is there a frijoles charros recipe?
Just use a slow cooker overnight or for a few hours. (not kidney beans though because they are toxic if they don't get boiled)
I just learned this earlier today and now I see it again!
There are quite a few t
foods which need to be cooked properly to be edible!
Cooking outside allows for you to get less smell. After I make dinner, sometimes I will go out on a walk outside to reset and enjoy it more. Works well.
The way you cooked them now is how I use to cook my beans. 🎉They really taste better when you cooked them in chicken broth!!
Chicken broth I am going to try that
I get sick on pintos that haven't been soaked 7-8 hours (and not more!) first and then I do cook in the soaking liquid low and slow: never higher than a low simmer. Along with some fresh crushed cumin and salt and garlic, I add one cut up potato. The potato softens the skins and helps keep beans from bursting leave creamy whole beans that crush well, too. It took me a long time to figure it beans. It's like no one on TH-cam knows how to cook beans.
The only thing I haven't done cuando ago frijoles is cooking them afuera.😎 I'll try it next!
I sort and wash my beans. I don't presoak the beans. I add:
4 chopped fresh garlic
1/4 white onion finely chopped
2 slices thin bacon
4 slices of mild pickled jalapenos ( Mt Olive or Hatch brand)
Two tablespoons of the jalapeno pepper juice
1 tablespoon of regular sugar
The water level way above the beans
Bring to a rapid boil then stir it and put on the airtight lid and turn the heat down to a low simmer then stir a few times.
The salt is add after the beans are done cooking and in spare amount.
The beans broth will be perfect.
If you want to make refried beans, just mash the beans and use the broth to get the perfect consistency.
That's my favorite way to cook pinto beans.
The best pinto beans are the Casserole Brand.
Sort to remove broken beans, stones, etc. never put salt in until beans have cooked
You need to add a ham bone in that get that old pepper and onion out. You can use beets, pickle cabbage ie crout , and cornbread. To make it better.😊
My dad always adds a ham hock for added flavor. Yeah you gotta show some ppl how to sort through them. Some ppl have never made beans.
My mom adds a ham hock too but she does that for parties and cooks bacon until semi crispy and adds the bacon fat and bacon to the pot too soooo good
Yes ham or bacon
Looks yummy🤤
I would've dropped in some smoked turkey wings, lil bit cajun seasoning, and can't forget garlic and onions. In my house anyway. And made a little pan of cornbread.
You need your let it soak from a night before and drain the juice and add water and then let it cook this way less gassy
Yasssssss
Here’s my 🥣
Always add the salt when beans are cooked.
When I was a kid my dad use to make use go through each individual bean to make sure there were no rocks or debri in it. Kinda annoying, but I cant remember if we ever found any rocks.
Childhood memories!! I only cook Peruano beans now but I did find little gray rocks in the pintos back in the days.
Best way for me is to sort & rinse well & cover with warer & then soak overnight. In the morning, Rinse & cover with water and boil for 5 minutes rinse again and cover with water & boil for 5 more minutes. THEN rinse again & cover with water & bring to boil & finally, reduce heat to simmer for 2 hours.
This boiling & rinsing gets rid of the nasty so we are not having the common issues after eating. beans.
So we usually season after its done and soak for an hr or so (before cooking) so that it doesnt take too long to cook
We add a ham bone /hamhock 1 whole white onion halfed, 2 Jalapeños 2 yellow chilies the Salt comes from the ham you can add more after.
I started off takening my pinto beans out the bag they come in and soak them in a pot over night .thenI rinse them good until the water run clear then I take out the bad pinto beans then I put 10 cups of water in my pot to cover my beans then I put my beans in chicken broth 2 cubes i then cut up one big onion, then I get my meat out or I used smoke turkey legs about 5 or I used about 8 fresh or smoke turkey necks or about 5 turkey wings then I either used those type meat in my pinto beans it gives it a great flavor, then I used two bay leaves into beans, then I put one tablespoon of garlic powder in my beans, then one tablespoon of black pepper in my beans , one belll pepper, one tablespoon of of seasonings salt, then once my beans boil 2 tablespoon of vegetable oil and let my pinto beans cook for for hours until tender then on the side I make corn bread, and brown rice on side to go with my beans
Buy Casserole Beans because they are the best and so clean. I love them.
Nosotros los limpiamos primero, los enjuagamos,ponemos agua limpia le ponemos una cabeza de ajo grande , una cebolla un chorito de aceite y ya que están sal. 🤷♀️
What I like about your beans is, they aren’t smashed their hold and soft
First soaked them overnight 😢
❤🎉❤🎉 thank you
What about looking for the Little Rock’s that the pinto have.🤔
I’m sooo glad you don’t soak los frijoles either, we just cook them right away too and it completely transforms the beans and the bean broth into the most amazing and delicious beans ever!! No measurements needed, I do how mi Gramita taught me and I’m so blessed to continue preparing her food, so blessed 🥲💯🙏🏽💞
Something i always wondered was, to soak the beans, put the beans to soak in the fridge, if you leave them to soak at room temp,, they smell rotten. Yes you dispose of the water, replace it and boil.
No no no se le pone sal a los frejoles hasta después si lo pones antes demora como tu dices 2 horas , se le pone la sal cuando el frejol por dentro esta un poquito duro ahí es el momento de la sal y solo demora 45 minutos y quizás un poquito menos depende la cantidad a mi 45 minutos.
Great, should have read the comments first. I did sort beforehand but didn’t know about adding salt afterwards. I’m going to blend mine though after they’re cooked and refry them. That’s where I’ll add the onion and garlic.
I don’t know how to cook beans. Thanks for the video. 😩
Soak overnight and add salt after they cooked not before ❤
Lmao as a brown american woman this the only time I let my man who is latino cook😅
Level it and dump that water on your outdoor plants too! Like your channel, thanks for all the content!
I just made some Charro beans and this is how i prepped my beans
I do it the same ! Omgg
I❤PINTOS!!!!
Thank you Jenny for showing that you DO NOT need to soak the beans ahead of time!!
For all those in the comments saying "don't you need to soak the beans?"
NO! YOU! DON'T!!
"It makes the beans softer." Yeah, so does cooking the for a bit longer.
"It makes them prettier." (I swear I read that in the comments.) Are you f*cking kidding me?! IT'S ABOUT HOW THEY TASTE, NOT HOW THEY LOOK!!!! And my UNSOAKED beans look hella nice thank you very much.
I'm just really sick of non-Latinos trying to tell us how you're "supposed" to cook beans, especially when some of us (Mexicans, like me) cook beans almost every day.
But yeah, you should have picked them for rocks first. 😁
Thanks
I was taught to clean them by sorting the beans and finding the little stones or rocks out.Then you rinse them.I try not to waste so much water.I dislike biting into a hard little rock.
Pre ordered the cookbook aug 30th!!!!!
I appreciate you
It's the brother 😂 of Indian Rajma (kidney beans) and we simply soak it overnight. Add spices like bay leaves, star anise and cinnamon sticks and pressure cook in a cooker for 40 to 50 minutes. Keep aside till the pressure goes out from the pressure cooker.
Oh my. I learned as a young girl 1st to sort ,get the tiny rocks out and soak overnight. Maybe saying it loud makes you expert
I just made a perfect pot of beans today. Full of ham and onion
I enjoy some of your recipes, especially when you throw the food at your camera. With all due respect, you will have to start when making beans as my mother showed me to separate the bad or chip beans and the small rocks that come with the bag of beans, yes, depending on were your beans come from you will need to freeze them first because the beans sometimes have a bug 🐛 in side and freezing kills the bugs. Then, use water to rinse more than once. At times, the darker the water tells you how old the beans are. I never wash my beans as my mother used to wash in the tub. Because we have a washer 😅 and last I dump the water after cooking 30 minutes and add new clean filter water along with 1 jalapeno G/R 🌶 and one whole onions 🌰 cut in 4 pieces ( some time) if you let set the beans in water for 30 minutes it will take less time to cook. The only things I cook outside are carne asada, chicken, shrimp, and vegetables for salsa. 🍋🍅🌰🦪🍤
Now y lesto and enjoy senorita. 😎
Oaky, I have my bowl! Yum!
How do you make refried beans and tortillas?❤
I'm a gringo so sorry in advance do u need to soak em for a few hours after cleaning or once the water is clear the are good to go on and boil em
if you buy them from the mexican market by the pound you need to pick out the rocks in them changed my moms life the day i told her to get the ones from sams club lol
Where can I get you cook book?
Do you wash your rice like how you wash your beans?
Thankz i didnt know im tired of can beans
Y la cebolla ?
No viste el video? Le hecho cebollitas
Congratulations on you new book. Where do I pre buy your book 📕 put in you notification please.
I found it on Amazon. Hope it helps
No sorting, soaking?
Be sure any water you add is boiling hot water. ❤
You forgot to sort the beans before you washed them. 🤦🏻♀️
One of THOSE MANY IS ME JENNY. I LOVE AND APPRECIATE YOU SHOWING US LITTKE THINGS LIKE THIS😊😊
Wait. No salt?
Tried boiling them for two hours they are still hard an uncooked I’ll let you guys have all the beans?
I do this with jasmin rice
I wash my Beans with a Drop of dishwashing SOAP! Swish, Swish, Rince several times. Cook with baking soda remove the GAS💨
Bring to a boil for 10 minutes. Drain and rinse. Fill cool with water and another teaspoon of Baking Soda, start the cooking proses. Add your onion and herbs of your choice.
Buddy Love Momma Lucy 💖
What kind of chili did you use?
I trust her because of the Spanish. Cooking now
Always good info..but video goes too fast and certain important steps are left out.
No overnights soaking?
Many still don't ? You should let them soak for 3 hrs & then cook for best results , jen✌🏽😚
Adding salt at the beginning is sketchy
I didn’t realize how long it takes to cook pinto beans
Salt goes last when it's done